Black Identity - AAIHS

Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 Anna Hinton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Black Madness ::

Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

Online Roundtable—Black Madness :: Mad Blackness

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, Disability Studies, race

March 9–12, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Therí

On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. Warning: This essay